Final Project Suggestions:
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These are some *suggestions* for final projects.  You are free to
simply pick on of these, to do a variation of one of these, or
come up with your own idea.  Whatever you decide to do, you must
clear the idea with either one of the TAs or the Professor.

In general projects can be done in groups of up to three people.
You are responsible for managing your own groups, and we expect
slightly more ambitious projects from a three person group than
we would from a loner.


Photon Mapping
  Implement a basic global illumination renderer using photon
  mapping.


Spline Modeling
  Write an interactive modeling program for building spline models.
  Variations in this idea might be subdivision surface modelers or
  polygon modelers.


First Person Shooter
  Author a first person shooter game like Quake or Halo.


Simulation
  Write a cloth, rigid body, or smoke simulation program.  You can
  either develop an interactive program or an offline simulation for
  making animations.


Radiosity
  Write a rendering program that uses radiosity to generate a diffuse
  solution that can be used with your ray tracing assignment.


Open Source Contribution
  Write a useful, graphics related, extension for some open source
  project.  This project should be related to graphics.  Examples
  include: Gimp, Skencil (a.k.a. Sketch), Pixie, or Dia.  Bonus points
  if the project maintainer incorporates your work.


Hardware Something-Or-Other
  Use a high end GPU to accelerate some *interesting* computation.
  You need to come up with your own hardware to work with.


Non-Photorealistic-Renderer
  Implement a renderer that generates some interesting rendering
  style.


Inverse Kinematics
  Write an inverse kinematics solver and use it to do something
  interesting.  For example, last year someone made a nice spider that
  could be walked around on computer generated terrain.


Surface Simplification
  implement an algorithm for simplifying a polygonal surface.


More to come....